TravelPlot Porto is composed by several platforms such as an iPhone app, a Website, a Map, Live Events and Social Networks (YouTube, Twitter and Pinterest). All of these platforms are free with the exception of the live events.The objective of TravelPlot Porto is to give tourists a personalized and engaging trip to Porto by getting to know its stories. With 9 story chapters and 42 locations to choose from, tourists will find locations for their particular taste and interest. They can opt to visit the locations near them, the locations that belong to the same chapter of the story, or even check the locations according to the story’s chronologic order.TravelPlot Porto is also a social responsibility project supporting "A Place for Joãozinho” which aims to become a reference for health for young people. The partners DouroAzul, Vinhas d’Alho and Porto com Arte, will donate 1€ of specific related purchases to TravelPlot Porto to "A Place for Joãozinho”.

The emergence of multimedia interactivity in documentary filmmaking leads us to, once again ask, “What makes a documentary a documentary?” Many people I know gave up on this question a long time ag...

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Must read essay by Jason Brush on interactive documentary:

"beyond curiosity, the medium of film benefits from interactivity as a way to extend the filmmaker’s creative voice. Interactivity presents new formal opportunities to tell stories. It presents new aesthetic potential. It presents new ways to connect with audiences. It provides new opportunities to creatively interpret and reflect reality."

"beyond curiosity, the medium of film benefits from interactivity as a way to extend the filmmaker’s creative voice. Interactivity presents new formal opportunities to tell stories. It presents new aesthetic potential. It presents new ways to connect with audiences. It provides new opportunities to creatively interpret and reflect reality."

Great resource for interactive doc makers and researchers - Elaine McMillion-Sheldon's case study presentation from i-Docs 2014 where she went into incredible detail about working with the community, the process of making the doc and the legacy of it once it's out in the world. Raises a lot of interesting points about the current state of the field of interactive documentary.

Would you ever talk with your partner about what one of you would do if the other cheated? Or about the best memories you both have from your relationship? Or about what the power dynamic is like between you? Obviously these are difficult conversations to have, but they’re ones that we need to have

Realscreen talks with producers who are transforming the documentary experience using interactive games and buzzy transmedia elements to discover what works best in the doc world. (Pictured: docugame Fort McMoney)

“The web gives us, as directors, a lot of possibilities, freedom and creativity to tell stories in a new way,” the 46-year-old Dufresne (pictured, left) tells realscreen, adding that a broadcast version of Fort McMoney is in production.

“You don’t tell the same things in a TV version that you do in a web doc or game doc,” he says. “On the web, what is magical to me is that people feel they are part of the movie, part of the story – that they’re inside...."

Can universities keep up with a fast-changing industry? Josh Davis has harnessed opportunities in both academic and real-world settings to create award-winning interactive documentaries. Through the lens of his experience working on Powering a Nation’s “100 Gallons” and NPR’s "Planet Money Makes a T-shirt” he discusses who really leads.

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'Hollow' is an interactive documentary that merges cinematic techniques with web-based storytelling to encourage a dialogue about the issues that small-town America faces. The project examines the lives of 30 individuals living in McDowell County, W.Va., an area that is representative of many boom-and-bust areas across the country. McDowell County has lost almost 80 percent of its population since 1950 and continues to lose more young people every year due to a lack of economic opportunity. This rural brain drain has left many counties across the nation with an aging demographic and failing infrastructure. However, many people—approximately 22,000—continue to live and work in McDowell. They feel a great sense of pride and belonging and believe they are there to help improve and move the county into the future.

Every edition of Sheffield’s Doc/Fest is different, but for me this year was particularly special because I came with two hats: my usual i-doc observer one, and my new i-doc director/producer one. In other words: this year I presented a project to the Crossover Market and got selected. So, together with Mike Robbins from Helios Design Labs and Sarah Arruda, I presented Digital Me, a project in its infancy... Sandra Gaudenzi's insiders view of this years Sheffield Doc/Fest Crossover Market

A very interesting look at the Crossover Market with emphasis on being a participant. Here's some quick take aways I found insightful:

1. On pitching your project - "It is a re-iterative process where you keep what seems to work and you change what does not feel right – you are concept testing though the eyes of the commissioning editors."

2. On user testing - " test your concept with your target audience."

3. An observation on the structure of the Crossover Market - " How much are we all victims of our own professional contexts, and therefore reiterating the old rather than inventing the new? ...

I am wondering if a market for interactive narrative should not include more coders, designers and creative technologists that think, breath and speak in a non-linear world."

Launch into space with a Chrome Experiment that follows the entire 36-year- long odyssey of the ISEE-3. See its entire path as an interactive documentary, read its instruments, and view its live trajectory and position as it flies through interplanetary space. spacecraftforall.com

The renowned Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) and DOK Leipzig cooperate for this innovative workshop-event focusing on interactive storytelling and exploring new tools and methods of story creation. Connecting media artists, filmmakers, digital storytellers or authors with programmers, games developers and web designers, the >Tribeca Hacks at DOK Leipzig< is a new platform for creative encounter, professional exchange and practical work experience.

New capabilities demand new conventions for communicating with viewers as well as new processes for authors.

i-Docs's insight:

"Nonfiction storytelling has the power to effect radical change, but interactive documentary is an immature medium. Traditional media forms have developed conventions that orient the audience in time and space and help them understand what to expect. Music has time signatures and the pentatonic scale; film has the establishing shot and the “180-degree rule.” As each medium matures over generations, audiences learn to become oriented quickly enough that authors can play with or deviate from those rules to great effect. Interactive storytelling, especially documentary, is a long way from that. The new capabilities demand new conventions for communicating with viewers as well as new processes for authors."

A web documentary exploring the impact of the FIFA World Cup. What is the effect of the international sports spectacle on the people who live and work in the immediate vicinity of a stadium? Through audio stories, text stories and photography we seek to answer the question: who are the real winners of the World Cup?

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